[lbo-talk] Here's yer Pigbag...

Leigh Meyers leighcmeyers at gmail.com
Sun Oct 2 07:32:18 PDT 2005


On Saturday, October 01, 2005 9:10 PM [PDT], Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> I closed my radio show the other week with Pigbag's 1981 song,
> "Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag," a digitized version of a 7" I got
> when it first came out. Now I find it's a bit of a classic, with
> remixes and everything.
>
> I have one question though: what's a pigbag? The band took its name
> because the founder liked to carry one.
>

Definitions of pigbag on the Web:

a.. Pigbag were a Jazz Revival band who came to prominence in

the early 1980s on the back of the post-punk movement.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigbag

b.. But personally, I think bota bag might be more contextual.

They WERE drinkers? Punk-Jazz... must be...

Leigh



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